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New Investment In Development

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The federal Growing Canadian Agri-Innovations Program will invest $158 million to support industry-led innovation initiatives that help get new agricultural products into the marketplace and improve agricultural processes, federal officials announced last week. “We are always listening to farmers and we’re helping farmers put more black ink on the bottom line by bringing new products
Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

W – for Jun. 4, 2009

With most gardens now planted and spring inching along, we’re all looking forward to the first appearance, and then that first feast of anything homegrown and green. Asparagus is in full seasonal swing right now. It won’t be long before we’re enjoying platefuls of young lettuces and other dishes made with spring greens too. This
Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Deadlines, Rotations Loom Over Remaining Acres

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“Canola actually holds on to its yield quite a bit better into that first week of June and so does something like sunflowers versus flax.” – ANASTASIA KUBINEC, MAFRI Normally farmers seed crops in a certain order, starting with cereals, followed by canola, then corn and then, by mid-to late May, soybeans and edible beans.
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Canola Going To Be Strong Through 2009-10

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For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended May 22 mixed, with canola mixed and barley higher. Canola was pressured down in the old crop by a slowing pace to demand, with both
Cereals, Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

Crop Report – for May. 28, 2009

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SOUTHWEST Cereal crop seeding is 75 per cent complete, canola is 55 per cent complete, peas are 100 per cent complete, flax is 25 per cent complete and sunflowers are 40 per cent complete. Planting of silage corn has started. Earlyseeded crops are emerging. Pastures are improving and producers are moving cattle to pasture. Flea
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Screwing Up Plots… On Purpose

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“Some of the winter wheat in the plots looks poor now, but it might be OK by July.” – KIM LIVINGSTON-BROWN While most farmers were headed for their fields trying to beat the rain May 12, John Heard and his colleagues were busy preparing to screw up some plots at the University of Manitoba’s Ian
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Flooded Farmers Can Still Get Crops In On Time

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Some Manitoba producers in flood-affected areas are still a few weeks away from seeding but specialists say there is no reason for panic assuming weather co-operates through May. As of May 5, the amount of flooded Manitoba farmland had retreated from its April 24 peak of 86,400 hectares to 64,600 hectares, a Statistics Canada report
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Push For GM Wheat Resurrected

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Five years to the month after Monsanto shelved its controversial Roundup Ready genetically modified (GM) wheat, farm groups in Canada, Australia and the United States are pushing for the “synchronized introduction” of biotech wheat. The Grain Growers of Canada, Wes tern Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) and Alberta Winter Wheat Producers Commission are leading the
Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds

Grain Markets Turning Increasingly Bullish

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For three-times-daily market reports from Don Bousquet and RNI, visit “ICE Futures Canada updates” at www.manitobacooperator.ca Grain and oilseed prices at ICE Futures Canada in Winnipeg closed the week ended May 14 mixed. Canola was higher, supported by strength in the U. S. soy complex. Canola was also lifted by a strong export lineup, favourable
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Cargill Profit Drops 68 Per Cent As Economy Hurts

Agribusiness giant Cargill said on April 15 that quarterly profit fell 68 per cent, hurt by the weak global economy and troubles in the financial sector. Cargill, one of the world’s largest private corporations, said it had earned $326 million in the third quarter ended Feb. 28, down from $1.03 billion a year earlier. The

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